Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
HIPPOCRATESPrayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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